Anna Barriball

Anna Barriball’s work hinges on minimal interactions with objects and often steps between the parallel languages of drawing and sculpture. Much of her practice explores and depicts the accretion of time – from the length of time it takes for a candle to burn down to the repetitious activity of taking graphite rubbings from objects that bare the traces of their use or function. In her hands a map of the world is transformed into a strange expanse of shimmering substance, or the bounce of a rubber ball on a piece of paper creates the effect of a cosmic explosion. Her interventions produce objects that combine a minimalistic rigour and the seemingly endless endeavour to make sense of the world of objects by empirical study.

Selected Exhibitions

2016 a solo exhibition of new works at Frith Street Gallery, London

2015 Drawing: The Bottom Line, a group exhibition at S.M.A.K., Gent

2015 Drawing Now, a group exhibition at Albertina Museum, Vienna

2015 Apparitions: Frottages and Rubbings from 1860 to Now, a traveling group exhibition at The Menil Collection, Houston and Hammer Museum, Los Angeles

2013 a solo exhibition at Frith Street Gallery, London

2013 a solo exhibition at Museum Villa Stuck, Munich

2013 Drawing : Sculpture a group exhibition at the Drawing Room, London